A set of New York triplets has made medical history by being born as the first triplets with a rare skull malformation, and to be the first to receive corrective surgery.

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Newsday reports the three 6-month-old boys — Hunter, Jackson and Kaden — underwent successful surgeries at Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island when they were 2 months old. On Monday, doctors and first-time parents Michael and Amy Howard, of Center Moriches, talked about the surgeries during a news conference.

Doctors say that the babies were born with craniosynostosis, a skull plate fusion which distorts the skull early and could stunt future brain development.

"Craniosynostosis itself is not that uncommon, it's about one in every two thousand to one in every twenty-five hundred children," neurosurgeon Dr. David Chesler said. "But what made these children unique is that they were triplets where all three of them had it. Never been reported before in the medical literature, we think the incidence is somewhere in the ballpark of one in 500 trillion."